Nature Vs. Nurture..

As we all have heard that transvestites are always not given an appropriate attention by family members and society either. But, by fact being a transgender is not those people’s mistakes.

To give you and example of this, we'll take a kid of an average Canadian couple. The kid was born by C-section. In a vaginal birth, there are hormones released that could in theory affect the psychological development of the child. Furthermore, if the child is born early, even by a couple of weeks, it is HIGHLY likely that the brain has not finished developing, especially in the areas of sexuality and gender identity.

On the other hand, the child grows up, attending a Christian school from preschool until graduation in grade 12. The parents and grandparents never notice anything amiss, though the child is bullied and pushed around all "his" life. The child also dresses in women's clothes whenever the parents aren't watching, and eventually it gets to the point that this child is wearing panties and a bra under the school uniform. Finally graduation comes, and the child is free from the torment of the other students.

A few more years go by, and this person continues dressing in women's clothes in private. It isn't sexual, it just feels right. It’s comforting in a way, and it feels so much more natural than wearing ugly guy clothes all the time.

His father was never really there for him emotionally. His father didn't communicate much and was usually more interested in watching sports or wrestling or the news than in spending time with his child. He had no male role model.

His mother kept her dresses in his closet, and her old high heels under his bed, and told him not to touch them. If you store something in a child's room, curiosity will lead them to want to play with it, and to tell them "Don't touch" is like putting a bag of sweets on a high shelf, but in plain view. The child WILL figure out a way to get to it! Furthermore, if the child already has a gender variance due to other factors, it could have made the situation worse to put dresses and shoes in the child's room. In the same way, the kid found a way to play with the dresses and shoes even though he was told not to.

Now the person is totally a ‘SHE’. Is it all because of only biological defects? Perhaps, she can get into the right track if her parents paid adequate attention to her behaviors but they failed to do so. Therefore, the question is “Whose responsibility is it for the being of this individual?”

BY: Nageswarie, Rajeswary, Kuganesh, Anitaraj